Perpetual calendar



S. G: EDWARDS.

PERPETUAL CALENDAR.

APPLiCATiDN FILED APR. I0, 1919.

Patented June 29, 1920.

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PERPETUAL CALENDAR.

APPHcATIoN FILED APR.10,1919.

' Patented June 29, 1920.

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P'ERPETUA'L CALENDAR.

AFPI-[CANON FILED APR. l0, |919.

Patented June 29, 1920.

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PERPETUAL CALENDAR. n APraLlcATloN FILED APR, xo, |919.

Patented June 29, 1920.

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PEREETUAL CALENDAR. APPucATloN FILED APR. 1o, 1919.

Patented June 29, 1920;

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Y i SIDNEY G. EDWARDS, F ALBANY, NEW YORK.

PERPETUAL CALENDAR.

To all whom t mag/concern:

Be it known that I, SIDNEY G. EDWARDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Perpetual Calendars, of

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which the following is a specification.

Thisinvention relates to improvements in perpetual calendars, and its principal object is to provide a simply constructed, readily understood, and easily readable calendar by means of which, and with a minimum number of operations, both mental and mechanical, any `date falling under either the Julian (old style) or Gregorian (new style) calendars can be quickly ascertained and the calendar for the full year in which such date occurs completely reproduced in standard or conventional form.

Thepresent invention combines in a single instrument, and with reference to a common key and a common, calendar chart, both the Julian .and Gregorian calendars, mechanically applying them, by means of said key and chart and associated elements, to periods of years in which each calendar repeats itself, the key and-chart beingso constructed with regard to individual and distinguishing characteristics of the two calendar-systems as to reduce to a minimum the number of rules or instructions to be followed in the use of the calendar, and the chart being constructed to display the readings for a full year of either the Julian or Gregorian system.

With the above objects in view, and having the general characteristics stated, the invention consists of certain novel features of structure, combination and relation which will be set forth in detail as the description proceeds.

Embodiments of the invention are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure l is an elevation of a calendar in which the features of the invention are incorporated.

Fig. 2 is a vertical central sectional viewv on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2. 1

Fig. 4 is a rear elevation showing a detail of the calendar construction. i Y

Fig. 5 is a detail elevation of the calendar chart and the rollers upon which-it is carried. 'A f Specification of Letters Patent.`

Patented June 29,1920.

Application filed April 10, 1919. Serial N0. 289,020.

Figs. 6 and 6a are views which should ,be read together or in horizontal continuation, showing in elevation the upper portion of the calendar chart, the limitations of space precluding a sho'wing'of the chart, in detail and for its full width, ina single ligure.

Figs. 7 and 7a'areviews which should be read together or in vertical continuation,

showing in elevation the key for use in connection with the calendar chart, the limitations ofspace precluding a showing of the key, in detail and for its full length, yin a single figure. y

Fig. 8 is an elevation showing an alternative .form of key. j

Fig. 9 is a detail elevation of the calendar as adapted to the keyshown in Fig. 8.

Fig. l0 is an elevation of a calendar of alternative construction.

Figs. 11 and l2 are verticaland horizontal sectional views, respectively, illustrating dev tails of the calendar shown in Fig. 10.

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts vthroughout the several views. Y

Referring to Figs. 1 to 7a: Y l

, The calendar comprises a key sheet which is preferably of the form shown in Figs.V 7 and 7a, and a calendar chart 2 of the form shown in Figs. 5, 6 and 6a. These elements, in the construction disclosed and preferred, are mounted vin a suitable frame 3 which carries a front plate 4L and, preferably, a rear plate 5. j

The sheet l upon which the key data is printed has its ends secured to upper' and lower rollers 6 and 7 which are disposed transversely of the frame in the upper portion thereof. cured toV rollers 8 and9 which are disposed vertically or longitudinally of the frame, adjacent the sides thereof. The structure is rendered more compact by arranging the web of the calendar'Y chart to overlap the lower portion of the web of the key sheet. The key sheet and calendar chart are manipulated or adjusted by means of the rollers upon which they are carried, the said rollers being turned by the fingers from the rear of the frame l. The panel 5 has 4an opening l0 through which the rollers 6 and 7 are disclosed andopenings 11 (Fig. `4L) through which .the rollers 8` and 9 are disclosed, the fingers being inserted through said openings for .the purpose of turning said rollers.I j

The chart 2 has its ends se-.

The plate 4 cop'erates with said key and said chart to display the readings of the calendar and bears certain necessary or convenient data which will be explained in detail as the description proceeds. The numerical readings of the chart 2 are displayed in the form of a conventional calendar through twelve openings 12 in the plate 4, and said plate is marked, with relation to said openings, whereby the readings displayed are identified as of a particular month and a particular day of the week. In the construction disclosed, the calendar is read from left to right and accordingly the naines of the month have their sequence in horizontal rows. Such names are printed, asl at 13, above the respective openings and below each month name are printed, as at 14, the names (abbreviated) of the days of the week, these day names being at the .heads-of vertical columns of numerals (on the chart 2) in accordance with the conventional calendar readings.

` corresponding years of the several decades.Y

TheV adjustment of the chart 2 is indicated by means of a key letter or other index which is obtained fromthe key -1,and which, printed upon the chart, is displayed through an opening 15 in the plate 4, said opening being appropriately llocated with reference to the openings 12, preferably justV above and centrally of the group of openings 12. The data of the key is displayed in a single horizontal row through an opening 16 provided in the plate 4 at a suitable elevation above the opening 15 and consists of designations of specific periods of time and of key letters.

The key shown in Figs. 7 and 7a involved the arrangement of years by decades for a period of 700 years (6; g. 1201 to 1900)y for the Julian calendar', and a period ofv 400 years (1601 to 2000) for the Gregorian calendar. At the left of the key sheet are the designations 17 of decades of the Julian calendar (e. g. 1201 to 1210, 1211 to 1220, ete), arranged in a vertical column, and Yat the right of the key sheet are the designations 18 of decades of the Gregorian calendar, also arranged in a vertical. colulnn. Each decade designation of the Julian calendar is associated with and followed by a horizontal row of key letters 19 and certain horizontal rows of these key letters are in common association with the decade designations of the Gregorian calendar while other horizontal rows ofthe'key letters are associated only with the decade designations of the Julian calendar. The key letters of each row are apportioned to the respective` successive years of the decade with which said rowl is associated and the saidkey lletters, of course fall in vertical columns common to As a matter of convenience, the plate .4.s preferably provided with suitable explanatory headings or designations above the tions under the associated sub-headingsV From and To, the designations 18 similarly fall under the heading Gregorian calendar and under the associated sub-headings From and T`o, and the columns of key letters fall under the nuinericalheadings 1 to 0 inclusive, these numerical headings being arrangedV under the explanatory title Years of decades.

As a matter of further convenience, the plate 4 may be provided with data indicative of the specific-periods or cycles of years appearing on the ',key, and such data may have any appropriate arrangement and location. It is preferably arranged just' below the opening 16 and consists of two horizontal rowsV of numerals. 20 indicativeof the centuries of the respective Julian and Gregorian calendars of the periods or cycles covered by the key, these rows of numerals beingexplained by a suitable legendv at the right as designating, the numerals of the upper row the respective centuriesV of the Julian calendar, and the numeralsof' the lower row the respective centuries of the Gregorian calendar.

The cycle of the Julian calendar is 28 years, i. e. the calendar is the same, without exception, for every succeeding period of 28 years, whereas the cycle of theGregorian calendar is 400 years. The key, in order to compensate for this wide variance in the length of the cycles of the respective calendar systems and to apply with equal faioo cility, e. without repetition of operations f' and without operations of calculation), to either system is constructed to cover a range of Julian years sufficiently extended to provide separately reproduced key lettersl for all the years of the Gregorian cycle. It is for this reason that the key covers 700 Vyears of the Julian calendar, that is to say, the complete enumeration of key letters for 7 00 years of the-Julian calendar will include a complete enumerationof key letters for `the Gregorian cycle of 400 years. The key let- `ters 19 are correlated to a calendar chart', as

2, which is adapted, in coperation'with the plate 4, to give a reading for a complete year of either the Julian or Gregorian'v calendars and for any years of said calendars. For this purpose, fourteen difere'nt key letters'A to N are required in apportionment to and combination with a calendar chart which is capable, in fourteen-different operative alinements with the opening 12, of

reproducing or disclosing fourteen different yearly calendars which, in the aggregate, cover all yearly calendar vvariations of the Julian and Gregorian systems. The correlation of the key letters, to the chart,theV structure or composition sociated ofthe key, and the structure or composition of the chart are based upon :the following table graphically included in both systems.

i i Yearly calcmlars.A

Common years, 365`days.y Leap years, 366 days. y

Key letters; Key letters. pays. Days.

A B c D E F G H 1 J K L M N Su Mo Tu We Th Fr- Sa v 31 January 31 Sd Mo Tu We .Th Fr Sa We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu 28 February 28 We Th Fr Sa Su 'lids Tu We lh Fr Say Su Mo Tu 31 March v 31 Th` Fr Sa Su Mo We Sa Su M0V Tu We Th Fr 30 April 30 Su` Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 31 May 31 Tu We Th `Fr rSa Su Mo Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We 30 June 30 Fr Sa Su M0 Tu We Th Sa Su Mo Tu We, Th Fr 31 July 31 Su Mo` Tu Wc Th Fr Sa Tu We yTh, Fr Sa Su M0 4 31 August 31 We Th 'Fr Sa Su M0 Tu Fr Sa Su Mo Tu. We Th 30 September 30 Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Su Mo Tu We Th Fr SaV 31 October 31 Mo TuA We Th 1 Fr Sak Su We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu 30 November 30 Th Fr Sa Su M0 Tu We Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th 31 'December 31 Sa Su Mo Tu We Th `Fr The lirst seven key letters A to G calendar, but in the Gregorian calendar it inclusive pertainto normal or common years of 365 days, and the remaining seven key letters H to N inclusive pertain to leap years. The chart is made in two divisions 2a and 2b, of which the division 2b (Fig' 6) at the left of the chart Vis directed to leap years and the division 2a (Fig. .6?) at the right of the chart to common years. 4 The chart bears key letters 21 from A to N linclusive and being the fourteen letters which are used in the composition of the key and are several times repeated throughout the key under the designation 19. Each division of the chart is provided With a row of seven appropriate key levers 21 which are singly disclosed throughthe opening 15 in the plate l and are arranged whereby, as disclosed through said opening, a reading of the chart, as of the yearly calendar to which said key letter applies, and in the conventionalyearly calendar form, will be provided by the openings 12.` The numerals of the chart are arranged in unit groups or series 22, oneof which, for convenience of illustration is .marked oil' in Figs. 6 and 6a by a rectangular formation of broken lines. Each division of the chart has twelve unit groups 22 of numerals, corresponding to the twelve months of the year and arranged in accordance With the arrangement of the openings 12 andof the month names'l as- With said openings. Each unit grouprhas 13 vertical columnsof numerals, any successive seven of which may be displayed through an opening 12 ,fand each of the seven permissible aggroupments of seven `successive lcolumns of said numerals constitutes Va calendar for the, month designated above the opening 12 through Which saidv aggroupment may be displayed as of any of the years to which displayed through the opening 15, applies.

The rule that every year divisible by four is a leap year has no exceptions in the Julian thel key letter 21,l then` "heading 7 is' G Vand 1900` falling Within the exception. Such years which thus constitute an exception to the rule for leap yearsv require a special rule forthe use of the key,\and.the application of suchrv special rule is indicated by asterisks -which are located on the ykey 1` beside the appropriate decade designations18 Vand on the .plate 4 beside the appropriate numerals 20 of the lower row.

In the normal use of the calendar, the key lV lis manipulated to expose through the opening 16 the designation, of the decade, of either the Julian or Gregorian system, Within which the year sought is included. Thereupon, the key letter is selected by ascertaining the letter of the group 19 which falls underV that numerical heading'on the plate 4 Which represents the last-digit` in the dest en manipulated to expose `through the opening 15 thatletter of the group 21 which is the key letteras determinedby the previous selection from theletters of the group nation of the year sought. The chart 2 is 19. Whenthe key letter is thus displayed y.

through theopening 1,5, the calendar for the year sought will 'be displayed in conventional orm through the openings 12. To illustrate, letit be assumed that it is desired the key letterof lthe group 19 isexposedv through the opening 16 under the numerical The chart 2 is then manipulatedto exposejthe letter G ofthe yto learn theday of the Weekfor the twentygroup 2l through the opening 15, at Which time the calendar for the year 1887 Gregoria'n style, is displayed through the openings 12 and, reading the calendar in the usual manner, the twenty-first of September is found to fall on Wednesday. The proceeding for, finding the day of the week for the twenty-first of September, 1887, Julian style is the same, subject to the use of t-he decade designation'of the left-hand 'column 17. In such case the key letter, ascertained in the same manner, is 141, and the calendarv displayed through the'openings 12 when the letter E of the group 21 is exposed is the calendar forq the Julian year 1887 and gives Monday as'the day Vof `the week on which the twenty-first of September falls. In like manner the calendar can be used to ascertain the day'of the month, either style, of-any particular week day, for example the third Tuesday'in November, 1869.

When the date sought falls within any of the years of the Gregorian calendar which, as above explained, are exceptions to the rule for leap years, the key letter falling under the number which represents the final digit,v z'. c. 0, may not be used For such years there is `printed, on any convenient part, z'. e'. the plates 4 or 5, the special rule which givesthe particular key letters of the year in question. With regard to the key shown, this rule, reference to 'which `is suggestedby the asterisks above referred to is,

as follows: y

Use key letters F,'D and B for the years 1700, V1800 and 1900, respectively, of the Gregorian calendar and for any multiple of 400 years'V subsequent thereto. From the foregoing it will be seen that no calculations whatever are required for the use of the calendar as to any' of the years falling -within the specific periods covered bythe key, andthat but two operations, manipulation of thekey and manipulation of the chart', are required In case the date sought beof a year, either past or future,

not specified by the key, the key is used by the employment'of multiples of 28 or l7 00, in

the case of the Jillian calendar, and of 400 in the case of the Gregorian calendar. For example, the future year 1928 of the Julian calendar, and Which is not Within the period covered by the key, will have the same key letter as thev year 1900 (using the multiple 28 as a subtrahend) or'as the year 122,8 (similarly using the multiple 700), this key letter'belng N, Vand the pastV year 1181, also not within the period of the Julian calendar covered by thekey, willv have the same key letter as the year 1209 (using y'the multi le28 as anfincrement) or as the year 1881 similarly using the multiple 700) this y-key letter beiner 15, while the future year 2027 of the regorian calendar, also not within thev period covered by the key, will have the same key letter 4as the year 1627 (using the multiple 400 as a subtrahend),

this key letter being F.V The calendar, having the vfeatures above described may also be utilized to register the dominical letter or letters of a particular year. As each leap year has two of such letters, Vthe. first for the months of January and February and thesecond for the rest of the years it is v differentiated groups 27 and 28,0f dominical Y v letters, the letters of group 27 applying to the months of January and February Aand being displayed through the"` opening 25 and the letters of group 28 applying to the remaining months and being displayed through the opening 26. The groups 27 and 28 are so made up and also so arranged with relationto the groupof key letters 21that the selection of theV dominical letters for a particular leap year will be automatically incident to an adjustment of the chart 2 as prescribed by the key letter :for the year sought.g Normal years have but a ysingle dominical letter for the Vdisplay ef .which either of the openings 25 and26 couldbe used. VIt' is preferred, however, in the case of normal years, to simultaneously exhibit the same dominical letter through both of said openings. Accordingly, the normal year division 2a ofthe chart 2 isy provided with two identical groups 29 of dominical letters which are so made up'and arranged relatively to the key letters 21 Vthat the se* lection of the dominical letter for a particular normal year will be automatically consequent to an adjustment of the chart 2 as prescribed by the key letter for the Vyear sought.V l Y Q Referring to the key letters'herein disclosed,v the coperation therewith of 'the dominical letter group will be apparent from the following table in which thekey letter Vis arranged immediately over the related dominical letter or letters :l f

When the key letter is nA B C D E F G Thedominical letter for the whole year (shown through both openings 25 and 26) is A G F E D C B When the key letter is H I .l K L M N The dominical letter for January and February (shown through opening 25) is `A G F E D C B year (shown through y the display of the Vkey letters 21 and Vjust tothe left of the lmonth designations'J anuary and September and the readings which they display are preferablyidentified by suitable` matter printed4 above said open Verringen.

i 40 ment in that the key sheet is not provided,

naamw ings for example in the case `'of the opening ranged to fall under the numbers of the centuries whichfwhen the key of Fig., 8 is used, will be printed (Fig. 9) on the plate 4 above the opening 16 in two horizontal rows 20a (similar to the rows 20 previously described), the numbers of the upper row designating the centuries of the Julian calendar and the numbers of the lower row the centuries of the Gregorian calendar. The key letters 19l are alined in horizontal rows which are in association with horizontal rows of numerals 23,arranged at the leftof the key, and representing the years'of 'a century. In the use of the key shown in Fig. 8, the Akey letter is ascertained as the letter'19a which alines vertically with the numeral 20a representing the century'ofV the `year sought and which ali-nes horizontally `with the numeral 23'representing the particular 4year of the century. Y`r`lfhus, the year 1918 of'lthe Gregorian calendar hasthe key vletter @"C, and in theuse of the ke of Fig.' 8 this letter is exposed through t e opening 16 in, vertical alinement withl the numeral 20 of the group 20, this numeral representing the twentieth century, and inhorizontal aline-y ment with-the numeral 18 of group 23 and which represents the particular year of the century. v

Referring to Figs. 10 to112: *The calendar shown in these same in `its general principles of structure and use` as` the calendar above described. It differs, however,` from the' first embodias a separatephysical element and is not adjustable. vIn lieu vof the separate key Vsheet 1, itsrollers 6 and 7 and lits display openingj16, the key, Vas 1a, is printed in full 'on the front platet, preferably above the Vseriesofopenings 12 andthe selection of -operated by any suitable means.

the appropriate lkey letter .is altogether a mental operation, being effected in themanner which will be obvious vfrom the preceding description. VOf course,- either form of key, vizzthat shown in Figs, 7-7EL or that shownjin Fig. 8may be employed. Fig. 1() shows a key constructed after Figs. 7-7a. gl

-When the key is thus reproduced inthe front sheet l the only movable element requiredfis the calendar chart'2` which, as before, iscarried by the vertical rollers 8 and A9 which instead' ofbeingY operatedfby the desired and as preferred, be

Forex- 'the rollers may be 'fingers may, 1f

provided with operating cordsBO and31V 'suitably wound thereony and passed through figures is the y openings 32 in the adjacent yside kbars of the frame `3. The cord 30 at the left is pulled to .the left to effect a movement of the chart 2- toward the left `and the cord 31 at the right is pulled to the right to effect a movement of the chart'2 toward the right; and

as'each cord is thus operated or pulled the y other cord iswound-upon the roller to which it is secured. The terminals of the cords carry suitable finger pieces 33" (such as rings) which not only facilitate the Inanipu lation of the cords but `also prevent the cord terminals from Vbeing drawn through the openings 32 into the frame 3 and thereby further serve as stops to arrest the rotation ofthe rollers 8 and 9 when the chart 2 has been drawn to the limit ofits movement in either direction.

Having fully described claim: A

1. A perpetual calendar having a sheet myv invention, I

bearing a key composed of a group of .dis`

years of theGrregorian calendar system and the correlatedidentifying databeingadapted to both of said systems, in .combination f 'with a movably mounted .sheet bearing a calendar chartcomposed vof orderly arranged groupsof numerals wherein said groups are apportioned tol months and said numerals `to days of the month,.each lgroup having its numerals in columns-adapted in seven different'aggroupments o f seven successive columns to represent seven different calendars of-the'month to which said group is apportioned, saidfchartalso bearing the different letters employed in saidl key, and a plate superposed on said `chart,.said.plat,e having openings through `which any ofsaid aggroupments of thenumeralsof said chart may be displayedin the aggregate form of a yearly calendar andhaving another open- 'ing through Vwhich any one of the letters on said chartmay be. displayed,the`letters on said chart being correlated in arrangement relatively to said groups of numerals where- 'by` wheny any offsaid letters is displayed through said last-named opening the calendar displayedl through saidV firstnamed Vopenings will. be as of the years represented by the particular letter displayed.

2. A perpetual-calendar2v having a sheet bearing a' key composedy of aY group of rfourteen distinguishing letters, said group including :repetitions ofgsaid letters 1 and said 1 letters being arranged in `vertical columns and horizontal rows in correlation to data in association with said columns and rows whereby any letterl may be ascertained as the key letter of a particular year, the enumera-V tion of said letters being suiiiciently extensive to adapt said key to a period of 70() years of the Julian calendar system and a period of 400 yearsof` the Gregorian calen dar system, and the correlated identifying data being adapted to both of said systems, in combination with a movable sheet bearing a calendar ychart composed vof orderly arranged groups of numerals disposed in two juxtaposed divisions, each division of vsaid chart bearing a series of seven different letters as employedin said key, one series of letters pertaining to common years and the other series pertaining to leap years, the groups of numerals of each divisionbeing apportioned to months and the said numerals to the days ofthe month, each group having its numerals in columns adapted in seven-diii'erent aggroupments of seven successive columns to represent seven different calendars of the month to which said group is apportioned, and a plate superposed on said chart; said plate havingV openings through which any of said aggroupments of the numerals of said chart may be displayed in the aggregate form of a yearly calendar and having another opening through which any one oi: the'letters on said chart may be displayed, the letters on said chart being correlated in arrangement relatively to said groupsof numerals whereby when any of said letters is displayed through said lastnamed opening the `calendar displayed through said first-named openingsv will be as of the year represented by the particular letter displayed.

`3; A perpetual calendar'V having a sheet bearing a key composed of a group oiv distinguishing letters, said .group including repetitions of said letters and said letters being arranged in verticalV columns and horizontaly rows in correlation to data in association with said columns and rows whereby any letter Vmay be ascertained as the key lletter of a particular lyear of a calendar system, in combination with'a movable sheet ing the different letters employed inl said key, and a plate superposed on said chart, saidf plate having openings through which calendars any of said aggroupments ofthe numerals' of said chart may be displayed in the aggregate form of a yearly calendar and hav; ing another opening through which any one of the letters on said chart may be displayed, the letters on said'chart being correlated in arrangement relatively to said groups of numerals whereby when any of said letters is displayed through said lastnamed opening the calendar displayed throughA said tirst-named openings will be as of theV years represented by the particular letter' displayed. 1 e y.

4. A perpetual calendarV having ,a sheet' bearing a key composed of groups of distinguishing letters arranged in vertical columns and, horizontal rows in correlation to data in association withsaid columns and rows whereby any letter may be ascertained as the key letter of particular key of aJ calendar system, in combination with a sheet bearing a calendar chart composedof orderly arranged groups of numerals wherein said groupsare apportioned to, months and said numerals to days of `the month, each group having its numerals in VAcolumns adapted in seven different aggroupments of seven successive columns to repre# sent seven diiferentcalendars ofthe 'month to which said group' is apportioned,[said played through said last-named opening the f displayed through said firstnamed openings will be as ofY theyears represented by the particular letter `dis layed, said plate having another opening through which may be displayed a row of the letters of said key andthe data borne by. said key .and correlated to the letters of saidrow; Y

5. 'In acalendar,` a sheetV bearing a key composed of a group of distinguishing letters, said group including repetitions ,of-

said-letters and saidlettersbeing arranged inv vertical columnsandhorizontal rows in .correlation to data in associationrv with said Vcolumns androws whereby any letterv may be ascertained as the key *letter fora particular year, a second sheet bearing a .cal-

endar chart composed of orderlyY arranged groups ofnumeralsV wherein said groups are apportioned to months andsaid numerals to days of the month, said sheets being movable independentlyofone another whereby whenrany oi' said letters is portion of the calendar chart for the year represented by the vparticular letter displayed will be visually associated therewith.

6. In a calendar a group of key letters arranged in vertical columns and horizontal rows, said group including repetitions of said letters, and data associatedwith said columns and rows whereby any letter may be ascertained as the key letter of a particular year, a movable sheet bearing a calendar. chart composed of orderly arranged groupsof numerals wherein said groups are apportioned to months and said numerals to days of the months, each group having its numerals in columns to representseven different calendars of the month to which said group is apportioned, said chart also bearing the diHerent letters employed in said key and a plate superposed said plate having openings through which any of said aggroupments of the numerals displayed the on said chart, A

of said chart may be displayed in the aggregate form of a yearlyV calendar, and a series of three other openings through one Vof which the key letter corresponding to the particular common or leap year is exposed,

and through the remainder of which the ries of openings the calendar displayed through said rst named openings will ybe as of the year represented by the particular key letter displayed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses. Y

SIDNEY G. r EDWARDS.

Witnesses P. J. FALLAN, WM. F. KAVANAUGH. 

